by Pier Marton | Sep 23, 2013 | Care, Death, Doc, Health, Hispanic, Humor, Jewish, Mystery, Now, Poet, Sci/Nat, Time, Women
FIRST COUSIN REMOVED Alan Berliner: In Loving Memory of Edwin Honig 1919-2011 with a sort of trailer below, edited by Alan Berliner – The Alzheimer’s Association Website From the BBC: Currently 101 million people require care, but a report from...
by Pier Marton | Sep 16, 2013 | Afri, Care, Human Rights, Middle-East, Review, STL, Women
by Mohamed Diab, 2012, Egypt, 100 min. My Review: Based on real events, the film follows the separate lives of three Cairo women – played by three compelling actresses. At first each story is presented as a single strand; slowly though, as through the...
by Pier Marton | Sep 15, 2013 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Racism, Review, Wars, Women
“When you see the humanity in the other, it’s the end of conflict. ” – Robi Damelin, the main character. The Film’s Website Miri Laufer & Eriz Laufer, 2012, Israel and South Africa, 86 min. My review: It is only after the guns have...
by Pier Marton | Sep 10, 2013 | Asia, Death, France, Health, History, Human Rights, Peace, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Time, US, Wars, Women, World
Syria is not enough. Yesterday in the New York Times I read about the corruption in China (evicting farmers to dump them in big cities with lawyers beaten up when trying to defend them). Today in Le Monde, I read how Agent Orange – produced by Monsanto and Dow...
by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2013 | Death, Doc, Highlights, Human Rights, Middle-East, Now, Peace, Politics, Wars, Women, Youth
Napalm/Thermite onSchoolyard sur Cour d’École Aleppo, Syria – August 26, 2013 – Alep, Syrie le 26 Août, 2013 “What do you need to see?/Vous avez besoin de voir quoi?” Mohammed Abdullatif, Eyewitness/Témoin Hand in Hand for Syria was there...
by Pier Marton | Aug 13, 2013 | Asia, Death, Film, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyFilm, Peace, Poet, Politics, Popular, Racism, Review, Spectacle, Time, Travel, US, Wars, Women, Youth
10 Questions to Joshua Oppenheimer at University of Indiana (March 2014) – BAFTA 2014 winner & Oscar nominated – “This movie is not gonna leave you until the end of your days,” says Werner Herzog, one of the producers. The filmmaker, Joshua...